Title of article :
From Creation to Adaptation; Explaining Postmodern Aesthetics with an Approach to Photomontage Pattern in Late Capitalist Culture
Author/Authors :
Eshghi, Soodeh Department of Philosophy of Art - Central Tehran Branch Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran , Mokhtabab Amrai, Mostafa Dramatic Literature Department - Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran , Sharifzadeh, Mohammadreza Department of Philosophy of Art - Central Tehran Branch Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
Abstract :
The issue of aesthetics in postmodernism, unlike modernism, denies the aesthetic independence of
political, social, and cultural issues, and accordingly, the paradigm of uncertainty in the trajectory
of subversive discourses, without regard to objectivity and the issue of individual genius, resorts to
techniques such as adapting and imitating previous ideas. Thus, it de-formalizes various cultural
genres that have themselves been influenced by the process of modernization of late capitalist
currents at the international level in the process of distortion. In the meantime, the intertextuality
created by language games and electronic media sub-narratives, relying on the multiplicity of
identities, blurs the line between reality and imagination in an aesthetic understanding of
photomontage images. The purpose of this paper is to interpret the word "creation" as an adaptation
in the process of creating photomontage images in an aesthetic way and based on the paradigm of
the pluralism of the late capitalist era. Accordingly, it raises the main question of what
interpretation of the photomontage model depicts the accelerated and multifaceted approach to the
production of cultural symbols aimed at capitalist modernization in the path of postmodernist
aesthetic discourse? Therefore, in a qualitative approach and in a descriptive-analytic study,
documented data based on common themes among the variables in the research topic have been analyzed by content analysis method to conclude that the accumulation of space and time due to
late capitalist culture with the central discourse of postmodernist aesthetics mixing path marks the
atmosphere of cultural symbols that the idea of creating such a utopia of postmodernist atmosphere
is compatible with the pattern of photomontage images and their imitation and fusion properties.
Keywords :
Late Capitalist Culture , Postmodernist Aesthetic , Photomontage Images , Paradigm of Cultural Pluralism , Adaptation
Journal title :
International Journal of Applied Arts Studies (IJAPAS)